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From other useful listings, the reader will learn that the Communists are particularly happy over the word krasniy, which means both red and beautiful in Russian; that salami tactics, a term originated in salami-rich Hungary, means slicing away opposition gradually; and that absolutism (absoliutizm) in Russia ended, once and for all, with the overthrow of the Czarist regime. There are also such formidable coinages as shtur-movshtina, based on the German word Sturm, which means a last-minute production spurt in a factory to meet a quota. The volume shows that one word can have different meanings when used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pidgin for Progressives | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

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